Luyện nghe bài hát A Song for Assata

(Common)
In the of God.
In the of the Ancestors.
In the of the Black Panthers.
In the of Assata Shakur.
We this movement towards freedom
for all who have been oppressed, and all those in the struggle.
Yeah. yo, it-

There lights and sirens, gunshots firin
Cover your eyes as I describe a scene so
Seemed like a bad dream, she laid in a blood
Blood bubbled in her chest, cold air brushed open flesh
No room to rest, pain consumed breath
twice wit her hands up
Police questioned but before she answered
One Panther lost his life, the ran for his
Scandalous the police were as they and beat her
Comprehension she was beyond, tryna on
to life. She thought live with no arm
that's what it felt like, got to the hospital, eyes held
They moved her room to room-she tell by the light
tight to the bed, through her skin it bit
Put guns to her head, word she got hit
"Who shot the trooper?" they her
Put in her eyes, threatened to blast her
Her mind raced till things got
Opened her eyes, realized next to her best friend who got killed
She got chills, they her: that's where she would be next
mixed wit anger-survival was a reflex
They lied and visits from her lawyer
But she was buildin as they to destroy her
If it wasn't for this german nurse they served her worse
I read this story, knew that it deserved a verse
I what would happen if that woulda been me?
All shit so we could be free, so dig it, y'all.

(Cee-lo vocals)
I'm of Assata, yes.
to my Love, Assata, yes.
Your and Pride is beautiful.
May God bless Soul.

(Common)
It seemed the middle of the night when the law awakened her
Walkie-talkies cracklin, I see 'em they takin her
Though she knew,
What made the ride peaceful was the trees and the sky was
to Middlesex Prison about six inna morning
Uneasy as they pushed her to the floor in
a cell, one cot, no window, hell.
Put in the basement of a prison wit all
And the smell of misery, seatless and centipedes
exercise, (paint?,) and begin to read
Two years hole. Her soul grew weak
Away from people so long she forgot how to
She discovered frredom is a unspoken
And a is a wall and can be broken down
peace in the Panthers she went on trial with
One of the she had a child with
The foulness they would feed her, hopin she's lose her
Held tight, knowing the fight would live this seed
In of a doctor, from her stomach she's bleed
Out of this a girl was conceived
from her, left to mother the Revolution
And lactated to attack
Cause federal and state was built for a Black
Her emptiness was filled with and court dates
They fabricated cases, hoping one would
And said she robbed places that didn't
In the midst of threats on her life and being caged with Aryan
Through halls of hate she carried the light
I wonder what would happen if woulda been me?
All of this so we could be free.
Yeah, I often wonder what would happen if woulda been me?
All of shit so we could be free, so dig it, people-

(Cee-Lo)
I'm of Assata, yeah.
to my Love, Assata, yeah.
Your and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God bless Soul.
Oooh.

(Common)
Yo
From North Carolina her grandmother would
that she had had a dream
Her dreams always what they needed them to mean
What made them was the action in between
She dreamt Assata was free in they old house in Queens
The fact that they always came was the thing
Assata had been convicted of a she couldna done
Medical evidence shown she couldna the gun
It's time for her to see the sun from the other
Time for her to be by her mother's side
Time for this Beautiful Woman to become soft
Time for her to breathe, and not be how or when
She untangled the and escaped the pain
How she broke out of prison I could never
And even to day they try to get to her
but free with political asylum in Cuba.

(Cee-Lo vocals)
I'm of Assata, yeah.
to my Love, Assata, yeah.
We're molded from the mud, Assata.
We share the Blood, Assata, yeah.
Power and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God bless Soul.
Your and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God bless Soul.
Oooh.

(Assata)
Freedom! You askin me freedom. Askin me about freedom?
I'll be with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't
than about what it is, cause never been free.
I can only my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.
Uhh, the way I see it, freedom is the right to grow, is the right to
blossom.
is -is the right to be yourself, to be who you are,
to be who you wanna be, to do you wanna do. (fade out)